I’ve been saddened by a rash of product shutdowns by Google. Lately the announcement that Reader was being shut down is making waves, but that’s the third Google product I use that got shut down.<\/p>\n
First there was Sync, which was awesome<\/em>. It was a blackberry app that synced my contacts, some other crap, and importantly, my calendars with my BB. After shutting it off there is still a mechanism to sync the blackberry calendar and contacts list with Google’s — but it is far inferior. In particular, Google Sync was able to figure out that I can have more than one<\/em> calendar in my account, whereas the crap I’m left with will only sync the main calendar, forcing me to manually sync up with my shared calendars. <\/p>\n Then iGoogle was given the kiss of death. It still operates, but constantly reminds me that it will be “sunsetting” soon. For those that didn’t try it, it was just a way to customize your Google homepage. You’d have your usual search box, and then boxes for RSS feeds or little widgets. It was basically what the Windows 8 start screen was except better and properly encapsulated in a web browser. And now, Reader will be going too.<\/p>\n The thing is, I don’t understand why they’re being killed off. Was Sync really so hard to maintain? Does syncing all my calendars through an app take up much more Google bandwidth than having my BB sync one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been saddened by a rash of product shutdowns by Google. Lately the announcement that Reader was being shut down is making waves, but that’s the third Google product I use that got shut down. First there was Sync, which was awesome. It was a blackberry app that synced my contacts, some other crap, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}